I applaud your idealism, but the tricky thing is that if you stop measuring race, then you also stop being able to measure institutional racism. That’d be great for the closet racists who want to pretend that it doesn’t exist, but it does still exist and we really need to be able to quantify how well measures to stop it are actually working.

I worked with a French guy in Amsterdam. His parents were Portuguese, but he was born and raised in France. As far as he was concerned, he was French.

As I understand it, that’s a French thing specifically, not just a non-USian thing. Like, if you’re a citizen of France, you’re expected to be French and assimilate into that culture, no matter whether you’re a native Parisian, you moved there from Algeria in the '60s, or you’re from some random other place and got citizenship via the French Foreign Legion. It’s a specific sort of national ideology that’s different from the American “melting pot” one.

Other routers have run OpenWRT straight from the factory before (various GL.iNet devices come to mind, not to mention the OG Linksys WRT54G – it may not have been called “OpenWRT” as such, but OpenWRT descends from that firmware).

In what way is this device “designed specifically” for OpenWRT that those were not?

You can’t just say that and not link it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE96qUlJ_4

You’ll still have to firewall it away from everything to stop the firmware from phoning home, though.

It’s been a few years since I last checked, but AFAIK the only way to get an IP surveillance camera that isn’t proprietary, tied to some “cloud” provider, or that has sketchy firmware that phones home to China, is to literally build it yourself using a Raspberry Pi or something.

One of those is not a non-profit foundation, and that’s a Problem.

Randomness is the opposite of information.

They didn’t make the first one! They got it from Apple, who themselves got it from KDE.

39. People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Try telling that to .

Oh no, it gets worse:

Prank or not, Tartaro was playing with fire by going with NULL in the first place. “He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents. “All you ever get is errors and crashes and headaches.”

Archive link: https://archive.ph/o/Foe1r/https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

The inscription on the Pantheon has dots between the words.

M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT

everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.

Now that’s the way to do it! Make it everybody’s problem, not just yours.

Anticopyright diatribes are the important part!

Does this mean they’re Alex Jones’s boss now?

That’s really interesting!

We’ve been overdue for a revolution at least in copyright law for a long time now.

I have always used Firefox on all my devices, except for one: the Chromebook I was forced to buy because of compatibility with my college’s test proctoring spyware.

On that device, not only did uBlock Origin quit working the other day, but today Chrome even kept disabling uBlock Lite with the error message that “This extension reloaded itself too frequently”. It could be some kind of legitimate bug, but it sure feels a lot like foul play on Google’s part.

Brave was astro-turfed by crypto-scammers for way too long to give people suggesting it now the benefit of the doubt.